I think most of the difficulty is from really poor controls. You can only reliably fight one guy at a time because in order to actually hit them you need to lock on. But the game swarms you. If you could actually be able to have fine control, you'd be fine.

No. It's pretty bad. But if you speak ill of it in most parts of the internet, you will be bombarded by console tards saying it is some game masterpiece.

Playing it you get the idea that the designers desperately wanted to make a Western RPG, but couldn't... because they're Japanese and have a very different cultural and lingual basis for their understanding of story, art, and so on.

The result is a medieval theme, open world, and your one dude. But your dude is still a cookie-cutter character. The controls are atrocious and the designers clearly can't conceive of fighting outside of a JRPG set-piece, so it's downright difficult even to survive small fights. And you still go after stupid oversized bosses with weapons which are physically impossible.